From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: While kernel-debuginfo includes some source code, it's not all. In particular, it seems to pull in the sources belonging to .ko's in the kernel build, but not the sources for the vmlinux kernel itself. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-17.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Install kernel-debuginfo. Look for a /vmlinux source file like "fs/open.c". Actual Results: Hang head low in disappointment. Expected Results: Raise hands in a hallelujah. Additional info: I believe some recent Fedora kernels fix this. Maybe it's a rpmbuild packaging bug.
the source header for build kernel modules is in the -devel packaes If you want the complete sources use the .src.rpm
Perhaps you misunderstand the purpose of -debuginfo packages. They are there to enable source-level debugging of the binary RPMs, and include not just the DWARF data pulled out of objects, but enough source code for (say) gdb to show sufficient context. Just about all -debuginfo packages include sources for this reason. Try it. As I noted, the kernel-debuginfo file includes some sources, but not all. That is an inconsistency and a bug.
so you're saying the 'debuginfo' is missing for vmlinux but not for the modules?
Almost. The -debuginfo rpm contains generally *two* sets of things for binaries: a snapshot of sources (from the BUILD/) directory, and the stripped DWARF data extracted from the object files. In the case of kernel-debuginfo, both sets of information should be present, for the modules as well as the kernel. However, the sources are missing for the kernel. The other "three quarters" are there (DWARF+sources for modules, DWARF for kernel (/vmlinux file)).
Did this get fixed by changing the rpm script? If so, when did kernels start being built with the fix?
hmmm, bug 182681 seems to say this was implemented. however, i'm not sure if this was changed in the build or if so, when. Since it seems like we are duplicating efforts in the these two bugs...i'm closing this one as a dup of 182681. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182681 ***